Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-06-27 | Page 40 | Canal Held Responsible for Typhoid

CANAL HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR Investigation of Health o Of Officials Officials Reveals Conditions of Contamination I j REMEDIAL STEPS URGE t City Will Wi Be Asked to Patr Patro Waterway This Summer and Then Conduit It It t iI hAT the tho Salt Sal Lk Lake and Jorda Jora T THAT I canal which runs through h th tl eastern and southern sections o 0 0 Salt Lake Is performing some somo of ot th Ui duties of a sewer has thus been heen a al allowed dutes lowed to become a menace to tl th health of or the city a an and ril Is rc for most of the typhoid fever In Sal Sa Lake especially t tho serious outbreak In tho the southeastern section with wih the health department has vainly In past years ears Is the tho belief 0 health officials who have hae Just com corn completed a thorough inspection of or tl th canal i During the past week an Inspection of or tho the canal from Ita its sour at the Jordan narrows to its iti Is ont almost In the heart healt of or Salt Lake w wa mado made b by Chief Inspector J J. H. H J Flyr Flyn of ot tho the Salt Lake health and nd representatives of the coun count health department In Tn view of what they found toun the ci cit cl commission probably will wi be ic urged t take Ht stops pS at nt once to guard a again an any outbreak of of typhoid from th thi source during the tho resent present season T Th commission probably will wil be hr asked t detail II inspectors pc tor to patrol the can constantly this summer Hummer and the ul silt nI mate remedy for tor or the situation will wl ii the tho complete o- o of othe the can can through the city t The TheM Inspection just completed r 1 that the canal which wen wends 1 I 1 course through farm yards ar 8 barn yard past ho hog pens chicken pens pons and co lots also ahw runs lulS un under H comfort i Is a general catch all catch catch-al for Cor filth alonI alor alon I Its roU route te 2 It I was found that in places alon along tl ti course COUIse upstream from frol the city ou hou houses es have been constructed direction on the the banks of the canal vaults or ba basins jf The fhe canal water Is not supposed r 1 be used for drinking or 01 culinary pu poses at all al n as tho natural 1 water water- the river and ant lake la Is considered for rOI these purposes but the In pc tor showed showell that in places the thc water J 5 actual actually used for drinking for fOl wasl wasi lug Ing Ing dishes and clothes and for pui purposes poses Tho Tue stream l Is also used f t bathing bathing purposes especially in t tl ti summer season when the tho younger gel gei oration cration hearkens hearken unto the thc call cal of ot tl U 1 swimming hole In this use uso the el elm elmont elmont m mont nt of ot of human contamination nh canIes carries the lie typhoid baccili is increase sa say the health officers JJ IN is I. I lU i iTo To remove the danger danger entirely Id Its said tho the whole canal would woul haebe have ha l b bo be but to reduce the tho dang to a minimum It should be bc covered tans the tho city to prevent use of its Is wate b by people along along Is route Its rou te and that se tion tOI In the country should be 18 und mid contant constant surveillance to prevent t tl stream being used as a sewer sewer For a number of or years ears tho the city a anual ai nual has had a more or 01 less Jess serb outbreak of or typhoid fever In t tl southeastern section where the u m covered eret co portion of at the canal run ruri Heretofore It has been impossible f C the health department to find t ti source of the disease The canal w wi winever never suspected there being no I that its Is waters sero ever evor used b by PC pe i plo pI for other than irrigation f t lawns and for tor th the flushing of t tl street gutters Discovery t that hat the tue water is beina used for Irr hr sating garden truck und and id for tor hum huma situation consumption throw ne new light liht on t tl